The author is Muhammad Salem. Born in Egypt, In the city of Cairo, In December 1972. Mohammed Salem, known as Memo, has been living in Bremen, Germany since 2004. He works in the field of education. He also founded the Bridges Foundation for cultural exchange between Germany and the Arab world. The foundation works to provide diverse cultural activities. One of the most prominent is the Our Film Festival for Arab Films in Northern Germany.
In 2016, he received the German Citizen Award in recognition of his efforts and cultural activities in Germany.
His creative works draw their spirit from his personal world. Through his travel companion and closest source of inspiration: His young daughter, Maya, Born in 2000, She is the heroine of his stories and the primary source of inspiration for writing this series.
The idea started simply: By writing stories close to his and his daughter Maya's daily life, It includes touches of fun and activities such as baking cakes. Hence came the first story entitled "Mimo, Maya and the Chocolate Cake". Then Maya and Mimo traveled together to Egypt and visited the pyramids. This gave rise to the second story, "Mimo and Maya visit the pyramids." And so the stories continued to grow step by step until they became a whole world.
Over time, The journey of stories did not stop at being just writings, Rather, the idea of developing it came about in a design that gives the story an additional dimension. This idea was a success. The natural progression would then be to produce a video for each story. Today, the stories have reached their current form: A story that is written, illustrated, audio, and visual. Finally, each story concludes with a song that expresses its content and gives it a special, unforgettable character.
